Mindful Writing on Monday

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The forms for in-line skating went home today.  Please complete them and return them by Wednesday this week.  Thank you in advance.

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Metacognites, collaborate, write six word stories.  

Strong verbs spark images in minds.  

Can you tell what the main idea of today was?

Well today was an exciting day indeed!  We have been working on six word stories as you recall and today room 123 got to share their background knowledge with the other grade 3 classes to brainstorm some strong verbs to tell six word story about rocks and minerals.  It was a massive collaboration of around 70 students (talk about global mind in action)!  Check out the photos:








Speaking of writing we are on fire this morning with our own powerful writing of I am a rock poems.  Groups were asked to pump up a basic "I am a rock" poem by adding strong verbs.  Here are some photos of their brainstorming.  You can see they are getting the idea of how strong verbs create pictures for the reader.  






Strong Verbs are found everywhere,  look at us shopping for verbs in the learning commons.  Check out our web.  We even challenged Ms. Pearson's class to create their own web.  



Ms. Pearson's class took us up on our challenge.  



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